Hey Friends! I love this blog and I love this group! You guys are the best! Ok, enough with the exclamation points. My goal is to start taking responsibility for my own spiritual growth. I want to really know and understand what I believe for myself and not just trust what my pastor tells me. I also want it to be obvious to others around me what I believe. I think the following verse does a good job of outlining my goals.
2 Peter 1:3-8, "His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ."
One step I'm taking to get started with my spiritual growth is reading my Bible more. I've been reading through the book of Matthew and finding about more about Jesus's life. Everything I've read has been a reminder that Jesus wants us to be completely devoted to him. Like the Crazy Love book says, we should be totally in love with God. I still have a ways to go, but I think when you truly get to that point of loving God with your whole heart, soul and mind, then everything else just falls into place. If I am completely in love with God, of course I will want to please him and I will want to serve others, like Jesus did, and I'll want to talk about him all the time, like Jessie mentioned when we talked about witnessing. I think that being completely in love with God also means letting it show in your actions and your daily life like Cara talked about.
I feel like I could go on and on about all the things I've started to realize since I've been studying the Bible more, but I'll stop here for now. My prayer going forward is that I will continually draw closer to God and become more like Jesus. I feel so very blessed to have a group of friends to help me along the way. Love you guys! Happy Easter Everyone!
-Hannah
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